{"id":31600,"date":"2012-03-27T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_morning_piece_on_todays_supreme_court_arguments\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T18:00:35","slug":"npr_morning_piece_on_todays_supreme_court_arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31600","title":{"rendered":"NPR Morning Piece on Today&#39;s Supreme Court Arguments on the Health Care Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The challengers contend that Congress, in order to pay for near-universal health care coverage, has for the first time required individual citizens to buy a commercial product they may not want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason we want people who are young and relatively healthy to buy health insurance is not because we are terribly concerned that those people are going to get unhealthy and end up in the emergency room,&#8221; says Paul Clement, who is representing the states. &#8220;What we really want is those people to be part of the risk pool and contribute their premiums so that we can afford to pay for the health care for the other folks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government counters that health care is different because everybody will receive medical care at some point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2012\/03\/27\/149242939\/justices-tackle-the-big-question-can-congress-force-you-to-buy-insurance\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challengers contend that Congress, in order to pay for near-universal health care coverage, has for the first time required individual citizens to buy a commercial product they may not want. &#8220;The reason we want people who are young and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31600\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,513,104,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}